Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie

A quite rich and well arranged Museum dedicated to Herbalism and Pharmacy – Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie – can be visited inside the Institute of Pharmacy of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels (Bd du Triomphe, B-1050).

In more then 60 show cases, a large number of items (plants, drugs, instruments, advertising…) are displayed and explained.

More info at the Museum’s official website.

• Photos by Luca Borghi@ (August 2009)

• Locate the item on this Google Map

Related items:

• 18th Century Enema Syringes
• Aspirin old samples and advertisements
• Cinchona samples
• Dyes and Drugs showcase
• Microscopes coupling

Bibliography

– M.Vanhaelen – R.Vanhaelen-Fastré, Plantes d’autrefois, médicaments d’aujourd’hui, Musée des Plantes Médicinales et de la Pharmacie, Bruxelles 2005, pp. 234.